When would I use Shake? – We designed Shake to let you quickly record
agreements for everyday transactions that you otherwise might do with a
verbal “handshake” agreement. For example, you’re lending someone you know
$300 – given the stakes, you might not need a long, intimidating loan
agreement, but wouldn’t it be nice to get something in writing? When does the
money need to be repaid? Is there a penalty if it’s late? Use Shake to agree
upfront on simple questions like this and you can avoid hassles later (not to
mention awkwardness and hard feelings).

When should I not use Shake? – Shake isn’t for complex or high-stakes
transactions. Are you selling your company? Shake is not for that. You should
talk with a lawyer. Are you selling your used computer on Craigslist or hiring
a freelance designer for a basic job? Shake is perfect for either of those.

Example Use Cases

You can serialize and sign a user ID for unsubscribing of newsletters into URLs.
This way you don’t need to generate one-time tokens and store them in the database.
Same thing with any kind of activation link for accounts and similar things.

Signed objects can be stored in cookies or other untrusted sources which means you don’t need to have sessions stored on the server,
which reduces the number of necessary database queries.

Signed information can safely do a roundtrip between server and client in general which makes them useful for passing server-side state
to a client and then back.

Gilliam is a open source Platform as a Service (PaaS) that allows you easily develop, deploy and scale your application backend. Unlike commercial
and many other open source PaaS systems, Gilliams is intended for Micro Service Architectures.

Gilliam stands on the sholders of Docker. Every piece of code running on Gilliam is a Docker image. To that Gilliam adds service discovery, a router,
scheduling and elastic scaling.

This is one of my favorite graphic novels. It’s a wonderful little story. Each page is a single panel. The single panel format gives a real sense of the progression of time, and it gives you a “slice-of-life” view of life at sea.

The pfSense project is a free network firewall distribution, based on the
FreeBSD operating system with a custom kernel and including third party free
software packages for additional functionality. Through this package system
pfSense software is able to provide most of the functionality of common
commercial firewalls, and many times more.

pfSense software includes a web interface for the configuration of all included
components. Knowledge of FreeBSD is absolutely not necessary. Unlike some
similar GNU/Linux-based firewall distributions, there is no need for any UNIX
knowledge, no need to use the command line for anything, and no need to ever
manually edit any rule sets. In fact, the majority of pfSense users have never
installed or used a stock FreeBSD system. Users familiar with commercial
firewalls catch on to the web interface quickly, though there can be a learning
curve for users not familiar with commercial-grade firewalls.